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festival. Evans stated in 2003 "it stopped being fun and we found we had to promote things and that's when things started getting quite tense." Evans, Rowlands, and Glyn re-remerged in 2002 as The Keys, after asking fans to choose a name for the new band, and were described as "Duane Eddy jamming
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in the late 1990s by singer
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